I just checked through about 20 scores from Durand, Eschig, Heugel,
Salabert, Choudens, Leduc and others. I found that they all use the
"standard" French beaming style where stems do not appear between
beams, but I was hard put to find a score where staff lines were also
removed. I finally came up with one: the original edition of the
piano score of Fauré's Requiem (Editions Hamelle). Well, at least
some of the staff lines are removed. On the first page of the
Sanctus, for instance, they are not removed, but on several other
pages they are. For those that are interested, I've made scans of the
two sorts of beaming in this score, which you can see here:
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?
img=Faure24.jpg&album=24272&fullsize=1
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?
img=Faure71.jpg&album=24272&fullsize=1
Note the strongly-angled beams. In more recent French scores, the
trend seems to be towards flatter beams, so that the spaces between
the beams can fall within spaces between staff lines, meaning that
the question of having to erase bits of staff line never arises. To
my eyes, this looks better.
Michael Cook
On 9 Mar 2007, at 22:39, Brennon Bortz wrote:
On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
Brennon Bortz wrote:
Also, often in French beams staff lines will be removed between
beams so that only white space is seen--no stems or staff lines.
Could you offer a citation for staff lines being removed? I just
checked my Durand scores (Ravel and Messiaen) and they do not
remove staff lines. What they often do is avoid having the beam
cross any staff lines, but when the beam crosses a staff line, the
staff line is visible inside the beam.
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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Maybe "often" was the wrong word to use there. Still being a poor
graduate student, my score library isn't enormous yet, so I can't
offer many examples without diving into the library at school. At
least one example has been provided though that does display this,
however.
Also, Igor Engraver, a notation program that a colleague removes
staff lines when creating French beams. Whether or not these are
"true" French beams, for what it's worth I can attest that they do
increase the readability of beamed notes.
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